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How much does it cost to build an AI agent for a business?
Most agent projects fall between a focused three-month engagement and a six-month build, depending on how many systems it needs to touch. We typically start with a two-to-four-week scoping engagement, priced separately, that produces a fixed roadmap before any larger commitment.
Three things move that range more than anything else: how many existing systems the agent has to integrate with, how ready your data actually is versus how ready it looks on paper, and how much evaluation work the use case demands before it's safe to trust unsupervised. A single-integration agent reading from one clean data source is a different project than one coordinating across five legacy systems with inconsistent records.
That's exactly why we don't quote a build before scoping it. A short, separately priced discovery phase — usually two to four weeks — maps the actual integrations, audits data readiness, and defines the accuracy threshold the agent needs to hit before it goes live. It ends in a fixed roadmap and a real number, not a placeholder that gets renegotiated once the build starts and someone opens up the real systems for the first time.